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Title: With nature and a camera; being the adventures and observations of a field naturalist and an animal photographer
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Kearton, Richard, 1862-1928
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Publisher: London, Paris, New York, Melbourne, Cassell and company, limited
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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the island and used inthe Viking times. Such vessels were manufacturedand used all over the Western Isles of Scotland,from a very early period down to the time whenthe steamers brought Staffordshire ware into fashion. The other implements figuring in the pictureconsist of hammer-stones, whetstones, rubbing-stones,or grain-crushers, and hollowed stones which mayhave been used as lamps. Curiously enough one ofthe lamp-stones we found was almost exactly similarin size and shape to one still in use on Borrera. The entire credit of properly investigating andrestoring this interesting home of primitive manbelongs to our friend, Mr. John Mackenzie, jun.,who takes a great deal of interest in the history ofthe place. Some idea may be gathered of the con-dition of this strange relic of bygone days fromthe picture taken of it before we commenced dig-ging, and the fact that four or five feet from tlieentrance the ))assage was completely blocked upwith eartli and stones, which were overgrown with
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J 6 WITH NATURE AND A CAM KB A. ferns of the most delicate green tint I have everseen. As I was anxious to possess some of theseundamag-ed, I wriggled my way inside and secureda few, which are now growing in my little Hert-fordshire garden. The dwelling is something in the form of ahuge drain, some thirty or forty feet in length,four feet in height, and three in Avidth, Avith apassage of somewhat similar capacity, but onlyabout nine or ten feet in length, running at rightangles to it on the left hand side, and about halfway from tlie entrance. This is, I believe, supposedto have formed the bedchamber of the people whoinliabited tlie rude house, tlie entrance to whichcommands an excellent vicAV of Village l^ay. Thislast fact was, no doubt, of great importance, inorder that the people might have early knowledgeof the approach of enemies. Neither had tlu^owners of this underground mansion been un-mindful of tiie benefits of some sort of sanitaryarrangement, for Ave found a drain beneath

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